Hello all Earlier this year Mark Goodliffe created a YouTube channel where he regularly uploads his solves of cryptic crosswords. I thought it was a brilliant idea but, as a setter, naturally wondered...
I've no idea if this will end up as a question, an observation, or just me venting. My daughter is at uni. She came up and spent a week or so with me up until Christmas Eve, when her mother collected...
OK, a slightly maudlin topic for the time of year (apologies)... but it was just something that popped into my head. I'm in my mid 50s and reasonably healthy. I don't FEEL old, actually very young at...
Hello old friends. Not been around for yonks - life and all that - but back with a question. My default browser has been Firefox for a long time. Then I started to get annoying lag on YouTube. Every 4...
Solvers/setters regularly meet up for what we call 'Sloggers & Betters', but these are usually only announced on the crossword blogs. We're trying something new this Saturday 8th July at the Snowgoose...
Has anyone installed this? It's a £40 product - general PC maintenance thing - and what concerns me is that you have to dial an 0800 number to gain the product key. That isn't the problem (free...
I've been approached by someone who intends to publish a puzzle book, but with four different types of puzzles from sudoku to cryptic crosswords. They want me to supply the cryptics. It seems like a...
It's happened twice in a week. I have the taskbar on auto-hide, and sometimes it decides to stay hidden - doesn't pop up when I hover over it. Is there a keyboard command that forces it to appear? So...
Most of you will be unaware, but in crosswordland we have occasional get-togethers, usually 3-4 times a year, where solvers and setters meet. These are typically at favoured pubs, and to be honest are...
Would love to take credit for this but can't - borrowed from a Twitter friend:
Nice offer on Amazon at the moment. Buy all of the Adam & The Ants sheet music, they'll throw in a stand and deliver....
I'm using Cyberlink PowerDirector on Win 10 to compile a montage of very short clips over a piece of music. I'm downloading fairly long clips from YouTube then trimming them to the 3-4 seconds each...
Can anyone recommend a good programme for live recording of what's on my monitor, in particular YouTube in full screen mode? I have Tiny Take but it won't work in full screen - the key-press to start...
Blimey. Looking forward to Mamya's Night Night song tonight. We gamers are eagerly awaiting The Last Of Us Part 2, and after finishing my crosswording work this evening I was browsing YouTube for...
Just want to mention something that happened this morning - wondering if it's happened to anyone else. While I was out this morning I accessed AB on my Windows phone and checked one of Mamya's Night...
The specific model is the EOS 700D. I'm no photographer and my gig pictures prove it - wondering if anyone here has tips (especially for this camera) regarding modes and settings. Daylight shots are...
Evening all. Wonder if anyone is having problems with YouTube? For the record, I'm using Firefox and this issue has been around for several months. In most cases, video playback is fine, and this even...
I've asked my webhost to block bots/crawlers from my clue-writing forum as they were eating data (the forum has been offline for about a week because we ran out of bandwidth). Obviously, a result of...
Hi all. Last year I asked about a suitable North London car park for taking the Tube into London and you were very helpful, so I have another one! Tomorrow I'm driving from Manchester for the Camden...
...it isn't. It's a Kodak ESP 5200 which is about 2 years old. Hasn't been used to print anything for about a month, and now it refuses to play ball. For reference, it's a model with separate...